With Their Mark on Earth, Humans May Name Era, Too

10/16/2014

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Humans are altering Earth atmosphere so much, heating and polluting
it, because of which many scientists are going toward a new mode to define the
time we live in. They're naming it the Anthropocene (AN'-thruh-poh-seen) or the
age of humans. However maximum non-experts don't understand it, science names
the past 12,000 years as the Holocene, a Greek meaning "entirely
recent." But in a mode which humans and their productions are changing the
planet, specifically its climate, has triggered a growing number of scientists
to use the term "Anthropocene."

Image Credit: (AP Photo/NASA)

More than 500 scientific researchers have been issued this
year stating to the present time period as the Anthropocene. On Friday the
Anthropocene Working Group inclines up its struggles to change the era's name
with a gathering at a Berlin museum.